Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and the Synthesis of Polymeric Materials

The development of new controlled radical polymerization methods has progressed rapidly over the last five years. One of the most useful of these methods, atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a powerful technique for the design and synthesis of new polymeric materials with novel structures, is reviewed. The Figure represents a hyperbranched polymer resulting from ATRP of p-chloromethylstyrene.